Gloucester Whale Watching, whale watching tours, Gloucester, MA

Here you will find links to the most up-to-date whale (and bird) reports. We hope you will take the time to enjoy looking at the pictures and reading about the whales and other wildlife we are currently seeing on our whale watching tours. Please check back regularly as new reports are posted often!

MOST RECENT WHALE SIGHTINGS:

Total Sightings for Today: On September 24, 2009 we saw 10 HUMPBACK WHALES, 1 FINBACK WHALE, and 3 MINKE WHALES

(click here for more details and photographs from this trip)

ABOUT WHALE WATCHING FROM GLOUCESTER, MA:

The City of Gloucester, MA is located on the southern shore of a rocky cape called "Cape Ann." Cape Ann juts out into the North Atlantic Ocean directly between two important whale feeding areas: "Stellwagen Bank" and "Jeffrey's Ledge." Together these two areas make up "Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary."

The primary reason whales visit the waters of Stellwagen Bank Nation Marine Sanctuary is to feed on the abundant food resources that can be found here. Whales in our area have been known to feed on Herring, Copepods, Mackerel, and especially the American Sand Lance. Pictured above is a Feeding Humpback Whale feeding on Sand Lance in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Gloucester's location makes it the ideal port to go whale watching from because boats departing from Gloucester have the ability to travel to either Jeffrey's Ledge or Stellwagen Bank, depending upon where whales have most recently been seen and/or reported. Pictured above is the 7 seas whale watch boat the "Privateer IV."

The Privateer IV is equipped with a large-screen GPS display that allows you to track your position off the Massachusetts coast as we search for and watch the whales. We hope that you will learn a bit more about the oceanography of the region and how it affects the whales we see by visiting the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary web site at: http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/

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WHALE SIGHTINGS REPORTS:

2008

Video Vault

Best Photos of 2009

7 Seas Whale Watch Home Page

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Photo by Shana Grimes

Some of the photos on this site were taken aboard our whale watching trips by our good friend Oktay Kaya. To see more of Oktay's beautiful whale photographs and other wildlife pictures he has taken please visit his site at http://www.whalesandwhales.com

Gloucester is the premier whale watching port in Massachusetts and just a 45 minute drive from Boston. We hope you will join us on the water for an adventure you will never forget.